SURVEYORS WEIGH IN ON NEW TRENDS, EMERGING PRATICE

 

In efforts to enhance the quality of its practice and ensure effective national development, construction economists have urged governments and practitioners to encourage researchers through funding, commissioning research projects and utilization of finding. Memers of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) who met at a three-day research conference organised by the institute, held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) on the theme, confluence of research, theory and practice in quantity surverying profession for a sustainable built environment’, agreed on the need to blend theory and practice to improve the knowledge of its members. According to the president of the institute, Murtala Aliyu, “the bulk of researches in Nigeria seem to be domiciled in the academic institution with little application in practice to solve human problems, probably because governments and practitioners are not aware of or appear like mere academic rituals.